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Re: Marching with fixed bayonets
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Re: Marching with fixed bayonets
If the commander is thinking he will be attacked at ANY moment, the extra time it would take to fix bayonets would be a a factor in his decision.
Unrelated to the quote, Ed is a dear friend and amazing historian... anything he wrote or helped wrote OR said is worth every penny! He is an amazing wealth of information.Mitchell L Critel
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Re: Marching with fixed bayonets
As a few have alluded, Brent Nosworthy would have us all remember that even with the advent of the rifle musket many generals still thought that battles would be decided by elan; quickly closing the deadly space between the armies; and driving away the defenders, haughty and unmanned, secure in their protection via firepower. Napololeon III (not I) and his Chasseurs a Pied had proved the supremacy of the bayonet to the scientific method of firing.
Therefore, I don't doubt bayonets-at-odd-times stories.[FONT=Garamond]Patrick A. Lewis
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"Battles belong to finite moments in history, to the societies which raise the armies which fight them, to the economies and technologies which those societies sustain. Battle is a historical subject, whose nature and trend of development can only be understood down a long historical perspective.”
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